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The Orgasm Gap
7 Strategies to Help Women Experience Sexual PleasureMany women struggle with orgasm in heterosexual relationships. Here are seven strategies therapists can use to empower female clients to experience more... Read more
7 Benefits of Concurrent Couples Therapy
Revisiting an Underappreciated ApproachConcurrent couples therapy has advantages over conjoint therapy that get overlooked by many therapists. Discover 7 ways concurrent couples therapy can improve... Read more
Supercharging Art Therapy with AI
A Surprising New Tool to Enhance Trauma HealingUsing AI art therapeutically is still a novel idea in the field of art therapy. For clients wary of traditional forms of creative expression, it allows them to... Read more
When Clients Ask for Session Notes
Tips for Navigating a Legal Gray ZoneFew things can spook therapists as much as emails from former clients requesting session notes for a legal proceeding, but handling these requests thoughtfully... Read more
Shaping Consensual Nonmonogamy Agreements
The Five Steps Therapists Need to ConsiderWhen opening a relationship, the agreement-making process is far more important than the agreements themselves. Read more
The Art of Detaching from Results
How We Measure Our Competence MattersFor therapists, doing something they love that challenges them—independent of their work with clients—can bring balance to their practice. Read more
Therapists Take the Stand
What You Need to Know about Being an Expert WitnessYou know your clinical expertise is of value to your clients, but it can also be important for judges and juries in court. Read more
Demystifying Walk and Talk Therapy
How to Get Outside With ClientsAre your perceptions of the risks and rewards of walk and talk therapy accurate? Read more
3 Tips for Working with Hard-to-Reach Clients
Matching Your Clinical Style with Your Client’s NeedsAre you matching your self-presentation and efforts with your clients' emotional capacity to respond? Read more
The Dual Nature of Trauma Bonding
Beyond Abuser and VictimPartners who associate love and intimacy with the painful family dynamics of their formative years can get stuck in a familiar bond that’s hard to shake... Read more
The Enduring Power of Bioenergetic Therapy
From Trauma to JoySometimes, transformational growth happens when we least expect it. Read more
Unlocking the Potential of Holistic Healing
Four Strategies to Bring the Body into TherapyAs the world embraces the theory of how trauma is captured in the body, clinicians are introducing clients to holistic healing techniques like sound baths and... Read more
Helping Couples Ask for What They Want
Communication in Couples CounselingA therapist explains why it's so hard for partners to ask for what they need and how couples counseling can help. Read more
Tapping Our Way into Healing
A Simple, Empowering Tool for Self-regulationTapping, a simple tool for self-regulation, can be surprisingly fun and easy to teach clients. Read more
Rethinking Codependence
An Attachment-Based Framework for CaregiversDoes codependency pathologize our natural willingness to help those we love? Read more
The Pursuer–Withdrawer Sexual Dynamic
Addressing the Three Threads of AttachmentWhat if we viewed differences in how much two partners want sex as an attachment issue, not one of desire? Read more
Igniting the Spark
You Don’t Have to be a Sex Therapist to Treat Low DesireYou don't have to be a sex therapist to help your clients with diminished sexual desire. Read more
Weighing Your Clients’ Needs Against Your Own
The Ethics of Handling Your Personal CrisisWhat are the ethics of carrying on with your regular practice when dealing with an ongoing personal crisis or medical emergency? Read more
Are We Treating Binge Eating All Wrong?
Removing the Shame and Building Self-TrustBinge-eating disorder is the most common eating disorder, but it’s also the most underdiagnosed and misunderstood. Read more
When ADHD Does the Parenting
Putting Adults Back in the Driver’s SeatParenting with untreated adult ADHD poses inherent difficulties for the entire family. Read more
Reducing Client Dropout
What Makes a Difference?How to build a therapeutic relationship from the first session that keeps clients coming back. Read more
Managing Your Waitlist
How to Tackle the Ethical DilemmasHow to tackle the ethical dilemmas Read more
Embracing a Shared Retirement Vision
Helping Older Couples Make Rewarding ChoicesHelping older couples create a shared vision for their retirement years. Read more
Unshed Tears
Helping Kids Work through Unresolved GriefMany of the ways that children grieve differently from adults can go unrecognized and unprocessed. Read more
Healing Beyond Words
How to Bring Art into TherapyIntegrating art therapy tools into your practice doesn’t have to be complicated, nor does it require artistic skill from you or your client. Read more
I’d Rather Clean the Toilet than Write Progress Notes
Making Peace With An Essential TaskWriting progress notes doesn’t have to be a bore. Read more
The Threat Response of Appease
Do You Know It When You See It?How can therapists address historical trauma and the common threat response of appeasement? Read more
Gender-Affirmative Therapy for Kids
What Parents Need to KnowSupporting transgender children doesn’t always mean rushing toward medical intervention. Read more
The Child Confidentiality Bind
How to Involve Families When Treating TeensIt’s a tall order to maintain a teen client’s privacy and build rapport with them when you’re including their parents in the mix. But having the right... Read more
The Transformative Power of Loss
Helping Clients Cope with Aging and GriefFacilitating bereavement support groups for aging clients. Read more